On this day in History - Sep 7

• 1151 - Geoffrey of Anjou dies (b. 1113)
• 1159 - Orlando Bandinelli is elected Pope Alexander III
• 1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
• 1209 - Nasce D. Sancho II, rei de Portugal entre 1223 e 1247.
• 1312 - King Ferdinand IV of Castile dies (b. 1285)
• 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England was born ( † 1603)
• 1539 - Guru Angad Dev ji became the second Guru of the Sikhs .
• 1540 - A vila de Faro é elevada a cidade pelo rei D. João III.
• 1552 - Guru Angad Dev dies (b. 1504). Second Sikh Guru.
• 1548 - Catherine Parr dies. Queen of Henry VIII of England
• 1549 - Faro in Portugal is elevated to city by King John III
• 1559 - Robert Estienne dies (b. 1503). French printer of the Bible.
• 1615 - Colonel John Birch was born (d. 1691). English soldier.
• 1644 - Guido Bentivoglio dies (b. 1579). Italian statesman and historian.
• 1654 - Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller dies (b. 1579). Bohemian rabbi and liturgical poet.
• 1655 - François Tristan l'Hermite dies (b. 1601). French dramatist.
• 1657 - Arvid Wittenberg dies (b. 1606). Swedish field marshal and statesman.
• 1683 - Nasce Maria Ana († 1754) . Arquiduquesa da Áustria e Rainha de Portugal (1716-1750).
• 1701 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was born (d. 1788). French naturalist.
• 1719 - John Harris dies. English writer
• 1726 - Philidor was born (d. 31 Aug 1795). French chess player.
• 1728 - William Burne dies (b. 1688). British Governor of New York and New Jersey.
• 1776 - World's first submarine attack. American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship Eagle in New York Harbor.
• 1809 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke dies (b. 1737). King of Thailand .
• 1810 - la Primera Junta de Gobierno de Argentina crea la Biblioteca Pública, por iniciativa de Mariano Moreno.
• 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
• 1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
• 1822 - Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.
• 1829 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz was born (d. 1896). German chemist.
• 1860 - Grandma Moses was born (d. 1961). American painter.
• 1860 - Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.
• 1863 - José María Medina assume (pela 1º vez) a presidência de Honduras
• 1864 - American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• 1865 - Jerónimo Carrión assume a presidência do Equador
• 1866 - Tristan Bernard was born (d. 1947). French.
• 1867 - Nasce, em Coimbra, Camilo Pessanha († 1 Mar 1926). Poeta português considerado o mais puro dos simbolistas portugueses.
• 1875 - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky founds The Theosophic Society
• 1876 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly wiped out.
• 1881 - Sidney Lanier dies (b. 1842). American writer.
• 1885 - Elinor Wylie was born (d. 1928). American writer.
• 1887 - Edith Sitwell was born (d. 1964). English poet.
• 1870 - Jimmy Tompkins was born (d. 1953). Canadian Catholic priest.
• 1892 - John Greenleaf Whittier dies (b. 1807). American poet.
• 1895 - Brian Horrocks was born (d. 1985). British general.
• 1897 - Nascimento de José Santos González Vera . Escritor chileno
• 1900 - Taylor Caldwell was born (d. 1985). American author.
• 1901 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.
• 1907 - Sully Prudhomme dies (b. 16 Mar 1839). French poet who won the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature
• 1908 - Paul Brown was born (d. 1991). American football coach.
• 1908 - Dr. Michael DeBakey was born. American heart surgeon
• 1909 - Elia Kazan was born (d. 2003). Hungarian-born film director.
• 1911 - Todor Zhivkov was born († 1998) . Bulgarian ditator ( 4 Mar 1954 - 10 Nov 1989).
• 1911 - French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
• 1912 - David Packard was born (d. 1996). American electrical engineer and businessman.
• 1913 - Miguel Rolando Covian was born (d. 1992). Brazilian physiologist.
• 1913 - Sir Anthony Quayle was born (d. 1989). English actor.
• 1915 - Former cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
• 1921 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
• 1922 - Paulo Autran was born. Brazilian actor
• 1923 - Peter Lawford was born (d. 1984). English actor.
• 1929 - Sonny Rollins was born. American jazz saxophonist
• 1930 - King Baudouin I of Belgium was born (d. 1993) .
• 1931 - Federico Tinoco Granados dies. President of Costa Rica (1917-1919)
• 1932 - Paul Getty was born (d. 2003). American-born philanthropist.
• 1936 - Buddy Holly was born (d. 1959). American singer.
• 1937 - John Phillip Law was born. American actor
• 1939 - Donnie Allison was born. American race car driver
• 1940 - World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
• 1940 - Dario Argento was born. Italian playwright and producer.
• 1940 - José Félix Estigarribia dies. President of Paraguay.
• 1943 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas kills 55 people.
• 1944 - Bora Milutinovic was born. Serbian football coach
• 1944 - Robert Laxton was born. English politician
• 1945 - Jacques Lemaire was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1946 - Mariano Ospina Pérez toma posse como Presidente da República da Colombia.
• 1946 - Willie Crawford was born (d. 2004). Baseball player.
• 1946 - Francisco Varela was born (d. 2001). Chilean biologist.
• 1947 - Graham Young was born (d. 1990). British serial killer.
• 1949 - Lee McGeorge Durrell was born. American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
• 1949 - Gloria Gaynor was born. American singer.
• 1949 - José Clemente Orozco dies. Mexican painter, muralist.
• 1950 - The gameshow Truth or Consequences debuts on television.
• 1950 - Maria Margarida Gil was born in Covilhã. Portuguese film director and actress
• 1951 - Chrissie Hynde was born. American guitarist and singer
• 1951 - Julie Kavner was born. American voice actress
• 1951 - Maria Montez dies (b. 1912). Dominican actress.
• 1952 - Susan Blakely was born. American actress
• 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
• 1954 - Corbin Bernsen was born. American actor
• 1954 - Benmont Tench was born. American keyboardist
• 1955 - Mira Furlan was born. Croatian actress.
• 1955 - En el Perú, se promulga la Ley del sufragio femenino que permitirá que las mujeres participen en los comicios presidenciales de 1956.
• 1956 - Morre António dos Santos Graça (n. 16 Jan 1882). Etnógrafo, jornalista e político português.
• 1958 - Danny Chan was born. Hong Kong singer, actor, and songwriter.
• 1961 - Toma posse o presidente brasileiro João Goulart e inicia-se o primeiro regime parlamentarista no país.
• 1962 - Thomas L. Beard was born. American musician, composer.
• 1962 - Kirstin Flagstad dies (b. 1895). Norwegian soprano.
• 1962 - Isak Dinesen dies (b. 1885). Danish author.
• 1963 - Nasce Toni Garrido. Cantor brasileiro (Cidade Negra)
• 1963 - Eazy-E was born (d. 1995). American rapper.
• 1963 - The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula.
• 1966 - The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).
• 1968 - Marcel Desailly was born. French footballer.
• 1969 - Angie Everhart was born. American model and actress.
• 1969 - Everett Dirksen dies (b. 1896). U. S. Senator from Illinois
• 1970 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
• 1971 - The last new episode of The Beverly Hillbillies is aired (the first episode debuted on September 26, 1962).
• 1971 - Spring Byington dies (b. 1886). American actress.
• 1974 - celebrados os Acordos de Lusaka entre o governo português e a FRELIMO, que terminaram a Luta Armada de Libertação e que levaram à Independência de Moçambique.
• 1976 - Daniel F. Galouye dies (b. 1920). American author.
• 1976 - Stevie Case (Killcreek) was born. American video game celebrity
• 1976 - Shannon Elizabeth was born. American actress.
• 1977 - The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
• 1978 - Proclamação da República Socialista Democrática do Sri Lanka
• 1978 - Keith Moon dies (b. 1946). English drummer (The Who)
• 1978 - Nora Greenwald was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
• 1979 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for $1 billion dollars to avoid bankruptcy.
• 1980 - Mark Prior was born. Baseball player
• 1982 - Lorne Berfield was born. American actor.
• 1982 - Ken Boyer dies (b. 1931). Baseball player.
• 1984 - Vera Zvonareva was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1985 - Rodney Robert Porter dies (b. 8 Oct 1917). British biochemist who , with Gerald M. Edelman, received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his contribution to the exact determination of the chemical structure of an antibody.
• 1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
• 1986 - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
• 1987 - Evan Rachel Wood was born. American actress.
• 1987 - Más de 200 personas muertas y cerca de un millar de desaparecidas a causa de las lluvias torrenciales caídas en Maracay (Venezuela).
• 1988 - Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station
• 1991 - Edwin Mattison McMillan dies (b. 1907). American physicist.
• 1992 - Rafael Solana dies (b. 1915). Mexican writer.
• 1994 - James Clavell dies (b. 1924). Australian author.
• 1996 - In Las Vegas, Nevada, actor and recording artist Tupac Shakur is shot several times after attending a boxing match.
• 1996 - Inaugurado o monumento em memórias às vítimas do massacre de Eldorado dos Carajás.
• 1997 - The first test flight of the F/A-22 Raptor takes place.
• 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko dies (b. 1930). Dictator of Zaire.
• 1998 - Google Inc. is founded.
• 1999 - A major earthquake close to Athens, Greece results to the collapse of few buildings in the area. About 150 people are killed.
• 1999 - Xanana Gusmão, líder da resistência timorense durante a ocupação indonésia, foi libertado da prisão pela Indonésia.
• 2001 - Spede Pasanen dies (b. 1930). Finnish television personality.
• 2002 - Erma Franklin dies (b. 1938). American singer.
• 2002 - Katrin Cartlidge dies (b. 1961). British actress.
• 2003 - The Great Antonio dies (b. 1925). Canadian strongman and eccentric.
• 2003 - Warren Zevon dies (b. 1947). American musician and songwriter.
• 2004 - Mirian Pires dies. Brazilian actress.
• 2004 - Bob Boyd dies (b. 1925). Baseball player.
• 2004 - The Serbian government backs a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools.
• 2005 - Apple Computer introduced the iPod nano, a revolutionary full-featured iPod that holds 1,000 songs yet is thinner than a standard #2 pencil and less than half the size of competitive players.
• 2005 - First presidential election was held in Egypt.
• 2005 - Hope Garber dies (b. circa 1924). Canadian actress.
• 2005 - Sergio Endrigo dies (b. 1933). Italian singer.
• RC Saints - Saint Regina; Saint Evurtius (Heortius), St. Cloud (Clodoald)
• Brazil: Independence day
• Mozambique: Victory Day.